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Originally Posted by Jeepnut
Church is not what saves you I agree. However, it is a place to gather with those who share your faith and to worship as a group. It can be a beautiful thing and it is something you can't get anywhere else. Church does serve a purpose, especially in the Catholic faith.
As far as Christianity being easy, that's your view. I believe Christianity is extremely hard. Why believe in Christ if you don't follow his teachings? According to my faith, faith alone is not what saves you. This is probably our differing point. This in my opinion leads to the prevailing thought that Christians think they are better than everyone else simply because they have faith in God. There are many that have "faith", but do nothing about it. Once again, why would Christ give us all the teachings if faith was all it took?
*This didn't turn out as well as I hoped. My mind is sucking right now. Feel free to criticize and I will refine my point.*
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Yeah, I dont think my point came out as clear either. Your post was good though, and brought up some good points that I need to clarify. Yes, church is a beautiful thing, and I wish I went. I believe that something almost as good though, is to just fellowship, when you gather together with people, almost like we're doing, and discuss religon. Its just a beautiful, in my opinion.
And about what you said about christianity not being easy. Jesus gave us his teachings because being good and loving others will greatly increase your chances. In the cahtolic faith, your faith in god must be balanced with good deeds. In my faith, faith is all you need, although good deeds will help. If you remember, in the bible there were two people on the cross. A theif and a murderer. I forget which one, but one said "if your jesus, get us down from here" the other said "remember me in heaven". Now, neither one did good deeds, but we can infer from the scripture that the one who said "remember me in heaven" was saved right then and went to heaven. In that example, good deeds werent important.